Table 1

Numbers* and rates† of violent related deaths by type of violence and region, world, 1990

	Overall violence			Suicide			Homicide			War
	No	Crude	Age adjusted	No	Crude	Age adjusted	No	Crude	Age adjusted	No	Crude	Age adjusted
Note: legal intervention related deaths were included in the overall violence category but not in the homicide category. Therefore, the sum of the subcategories of violence related deaths do not add up to the total.
*Numbers in thousands.
†Rates per 100 000 population.
Established market economies excluding United States
Total	86	15.6	12.5	81	14.8	11.5	4	0.7	1.0	0	0.0	0.0
Male	58	21.8	18.0	56	21.0	16.7	2	0.9	1.1	0	0.0	0.0
Female	27	9.8	7.3	25	8.9	6.6	3	0.9	0.8	0	0.0	0.0
Formerly socialist economies
Total	140	40.5	37.1	81	23.4	20.3	30	8.7	7.5	29	8.4	9.8
Male	101	61.2	56.3	62	37.6	34.3	22	13.3	11.5	17	10.3	11.2
Female	39	21.6	19.6	19	10.5	7.9	8	4.4	3.7	12	6.6	8.5
India
Total	158	18.6	19.7	99	11.7	12.4	56	6.6	7.2	3	0.4	0.3
Male	90	20.5	22.2	54	12.3	13.5	33	7.5	8.3	3	0.7	0.6
Female	68	16.6	17.1	45	11.0	11.4	23	5.6	6.1	0	0.0	0.0
China
Total	394	34.7	34.9	343	30.3	30.4	51	4.5	4.5	1	0.1	0.0
Male	190	32.5	33.6	159	27.2	28.5	30	5.1	5.1	1	0.2	0.0
Female	204	37.2	36.4	184	33.6	32.5	20	3.7	3.9	0	0.0	0.0
Other Asia and islands
Total	133	19.5	20.6	67	9.8	10.3	51	7.5	7.5	15	2.2	2.0
Male	90	26.2	28.2	40	11.7	13.4	41	12.0	12.6	9	2.6	2.4
Female	43	12.7	13.2	27	7.9	7.4	10	2.9	2.6	6	1.8	1.6
Sub-Saharan Africa
Total	488	95.7	101.0	16	3.1	3.4	205	40.2	44.8	268	52.6	52.9
Male	343	136.1	146.1	13	5.2	5.7	176	69.8	78.5	154	61.1	62.4
Female	145	56.2	57.9	3	1.2	1.2	29	11.2	12.7	114	44.2	43.8
Latin America and Caribbean
Total	141	31.8	32.2	22	5.0	5.1	102	23.0	22.4	17	3.9	3.6
Male	114	51.4	53.0	16	7.2	7.8	89	40.1	40.0	10	4.5	4.3
Female	27	12.1	12.0	7	3.1	2.7	13	5.8	5.2	7	3.1	2.9
Middle Eastern crescent
Total	254	50.5	51.2	46	9.2	10.5	39	7.8	7.7	169	33.6	33.2
Male	154	60.2	61.9	32	12.5	14.7	25	9.8	10.6	97	37.9	37.7
Female	100	40.5	40.1	14	5.7	6.4	14	5.7	4.7	72	29.2	28.4
United States
Total	57	23.0	20.8	31	12.4	10.7	26	10.4	10.0	0	0.0	0.0
Male	46	37.5	33.8	25	20.3	17.7	21	16.9	15.9	0	0.0	0.0
Female	12	9.1	8.3	6	4.8	4.1	5	4.3	4.2	0	0.0	0.0
World
Total	1851	35.1	35.3	786	14.9	15.5	563	10.7	10.5	502	9.5	9.3
Male	1186	44.7	45.3	456	17.2	18.6	439	16.5	16.2	291	11.0	10.5
Female	665	25.4	25.3	330	12.6	12.7	124	4.7	4.8	211	8.1	8.0